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but it's the same law it's the same law that lets you invite high priced lobbyists down to williamsburg. and bring them down there and entertain them playing golf, playing tennis, and bringing republican senators down there, to have exchanged for that contributions to their campaign. it's the same kind of law that lets you have honorariums and you've collected over a quarter of a million dollars of honorariums now, speaking to various interest groups. and there's no control over what you do with that money. you can spend it on anything you want to. you can spent it on golf club dues, if you want to do that. [applause] >> now, that's what i've seen you do in this administration. and that's why we need campaign reform laws, and why i support them. and you in turn have voted against them time and time again. [applause] >> john margolis, question for senator quayle. >> senator quayle, in recent years the reagan administration has scaled back the activities of the occupational safety and health administration, prompted in part by vice president bush's task force on regulatory relief. the bud
but it's the same law it's the same law that lets you invite high priced lobbyists down to williamsburg. and bring them down there and entertain them playing golf, playing tennis, and bringing republican senators down there, to have exchanged for that contributions to their campaign. it's the same kind of law that lets you have honorariums and you've collected over a quarter of a million dollars of honorariums now, speaking to various interest groups. and there's no control over what you do...
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he was the one who signed into law. as a backdrop, we as a nation are dealing with ever-increasing health care costs. as the health care costs go up, we are also dealing with a large number of people who don't have insurance. the massachusetts health reform law was designed to tackle both, but it got to the insurance part first. so it was a bipartisan group effort. romney signed into law. host: >> it hits on the issue of insurance, what was it intended to do? guest: romneycare is basically a teetwo-part process. the first artist to get people insurance coverage. the second part, which is happening now in massachusetts, is to lower health-care costs. what romneycare did was to say we have all these people who are getting hurt or are ill and not treating their illness because they don't have health insurance. hospitals are required to care for them. . ultimately, we as taxpayers pay back money. romneycare upended the process and said we will take steps so that everyone elsdid tell the insurance. people may be a diabetic w
he was the one who signed into law. as a backdrop, we as a nation are dealing with ever-increasing health care costs. as the health care costs go up, we are also dealing with a large number of people who don't have insurance. the massachusetts health reform law was designed to tackle both, but it got to the insurance part first. so it was a bipartisan group effort. romney signed into law. host: >> it hits on the issue of insurance, what was it intended to do? guest: romneycare is...
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when it comes to social security and tax law and visitation and adoption. as long as there are two classes of citizenship we have work to do. there is an urgency. this is a mission. it is not a gay mission or a straight mission. it is not a black mission or a white mission. this is the american mission. the lies of this battle are not demarcated on any map. they run from neighborhood and towns all over this nation. as long as there are children in pain in their own neighborhoods and communities, reluctant and fearful. as long as their are two people in love the stand before god and their fellow man but cannot declare themselves married just like their brothers and sisters. as long as this humiliation is heaped upon people who refused to be victims, and know they will be victors. we have work to do to get to that point. this is a call. i see this in new jersey. we are battling in that ranch. new jersey is a state line. i am a prisoner of hope. no person, no organization can stand in the way of this country as it marches toward freedom, opportunity, and equal
when it comes to social security and tax law and visitation and adoption. as long as there are two classes of citizenship we have work to do. there is an urgency. this is a mission. it is not a gay mission or a straight mission. it is not a black mission or a white mission. this is the american mission. the lies of this battle are not demarcated on any map. they run from neighborhood and towns all over this nation. as long as there are children in pain in their own neighborhoods and...
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and that problem is law enforcement. here's where we have a major disagreement with the governor of massachusetts. he is opposed to the death penalty for drug kingpins scared we believe that people convicted of that crime deserve that belted, as sodas -- drug kingpins. we believe the people convicted of that crime deserve the death penalty. you cannot have a war on drugs -- you cannot be tough on drugs and weak on crime. >> senator bentsen. >> it is interesting to see that the senator from indiana, when we had a resolution on the floor of the united states senate sponsored by senator dole, that this government made no deal of noriega, but the senator of indiana was one of the senators who voted against it. it is also interesting to see that one of his campaign managers trying to help him with his image was also hired by noriega to help him with his image. [laughter] [applause] what we have seen under this administration, we have seen them using a it cabinet officers, 28 different agencies, all fighting over turf. that is
and that problem is law enforcement. here's where we have a major disagreement with the governor of massachusetts. he is opposed to the death penalty for drug kingpins scared we believe that people convicted of that crime deserve that belted, as sodas -- drug kingpins. we believe the people convicted of that crime deserve the death penalty. you cannot have a war on drugs -- you cannot be tough on drugs and weak on crime. >> senator bentsen. >> it is interesting to see that the...
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i never use it for college, law school, or to get a job. others have backed me up. the boston globe interviewed two dozen people on this. they said in print that he voted for scott brown. it would not know about it until years later. i want to say something about character, since that is the issue. i think character is how you live your life. and the daughter of a janitor who ended up as a professor at harvard law school and working for the president of united states, i am proud of the two children i have raised and the husband i have had for 32 years and by three grandchildren. i have taught school. i have taught a generation of students. hello, occasionally, inspired a few of them. i have -- but i hope, occasionally, inspired a few of them. >> have you model this issue in the campaign? >> i wish i had been faster in answering the question. but the truth is the truth. i believe my mother. i cannot imagine what kind of test of character would be to say that my mother lied to me from the day i was born until the day she died. >> senator, is this disqualifying? >> no,
i never use it for college, law school, or to get a job. others have backed me up. the boston globe interviewed two dozen people on this. they said in print that he voted for scott brown. it would not know about it until years later. i want to say something about character, since that is the issue. i think character is how you live your life. and the daughter of a janitor who ended up as a professor at harvard law school and working for the president of united states, i am proud of the two...
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i think of as following the law. we do cover debts of immigration reform, comprehensive besom reform. ready to follow the loss from enforce our borders. but we need to do immigration reform. and it needs drop-in and now. we cannot keep putting us off. it is not right. >> a lot to live for issues as quick as we can. i think they are important. want to touch on foreign policy cured the war on afghanistan is drawn to a close. it is then laid up for united states troops to return,. ms. warren, i will start with you, what is an acceptable outcome to the war afghanistan? what is the nine states whose responsibility, even after united states troops returned? >> i think that we have always had difficulty with describing that. as a result, the 20 to get our troops about kurdistan. as for good as a mechanic, consistently as we can. >> would bring mom before? >> i think it is time to bring our troops, and to stop spending $2 billion a week in afghanistan. >> the net states does not have a responsibility any longer? >> -- united
i think of as following the law. we do cover debts of immigration reform, comprehensive besom reform. ready to follow the loss from enforce our borders. but we need to do immigration reform. and it needs drop-in and now. we cannot keep putting us off. it is not right. >> a lot to live for issues as quick as we can. i think they are important. want to touch on foreign policy cured the war on afghanistan is drawn to a close. it is then laid up for united states troops to return,. ms....
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it is a secular rule of law. our laws do not heed religious exercise and not supposed to enforce religious dogma their instruments of the state. host: here is a piece that you wrote. host: why? guest: is a case and the court chose to take it. the decision in 2003 was one of the narrow 5-4 decisions. it takes five votes to have a majority. sen the day of a diner has since retired from the court -- sandra day o'connor has since retired from the court. there is an expectation that justice alito will not share racials o'connor's of diversity on campus. that is -- a lawyer with the citizens united case. justice o'connor had been in the five-vote majority. her successor saw things differently so the court reversed an opinion that justice o'connor wrote. int: let's hear from richard florida, an independent. you are on with jess bravin of "the wall street journal." caller: i do not see why nine people should be able to tell 310 million people what they can do what they cannot do. how can you have a decision and then chan
it is a secular rule of law. our laws do not heed religious exercise and not supposed to enforce religious dogma their instruments of the state. host: here is a piece that you wrote. host: why? guest: is a case and the court chose to take it. the decision in 2003 was one of the narrow 5-4 decisions. it takes five votes to have a majority. sen the day of a diner has since retired from the court -- sandra day o'connor has since retired from the court. there is an expectation that justice alito...
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this current law is not going to do that. it will continue to drive up health-care costs and the cost of insurance premiums. >> you have 90 seconds. >> let me tell you why -- why i have dedicated my life to the idea that everyone should have access to decent health care. there's a woman in connecticut who has worked hard all her life and so has her husband. her husband was switching jobs and in between those two jobs, during the week he was unemployed, their son was diagnosed with cancer. when it would to get insurance on her husband's new plan, they would not provide for because he had a pre-existing condition. one week or two weeks of a lifetime and they didn't have insurance. they lost everything. they lost their house, their savings, they became destitute simply because an illness happened at the wrong time. there is no repeal and replace plan. republicans in washington have voted to repeal is built 33 times that have never offered a replacement. we'd to protect this bill and perfected going forward. matters for small bus
this current law is not going to do that. it will continue to drive up health-care costs and the cost of insurance premiums. >> you have 90 seconds. >> let me tell you why -- why i have dedicated my life to the idea that everyone should have access to decent health care. there's a woman in connecticut who has worked hard all her life and so has her husband. her husband was switching jobs and in between those two jobs, during the week he was unemployed, their son was diagnosed with...
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university of michigan law school. we won the law school case. we lost the undergrad case. and i think at this point, it is -- and there have been more recent studies about how it is a disaster for black people. but mostly i think it's a disaster for america. at this point, i will say, -- >> why? >> you get past discrimination by not discriminating on the basis of race. that's the way to do it. i will say one of the things that conservatives have generally not liked about richard nixon was of course he was the first one to impose racial quotas, time lines, on the construction industry that was doing business with the government. and, you know, people, my generation and below, grew up in a world without separate water fountains, without democrats slyke bull connor or volsavis or george wallace. in our lifetimes and i might add the president's lifetime, the only -- the only effects of being black is that it is an advantage. you are more likely to get into harvard. you are more likely to get into a top law school. so it was easier to be against the time lines, the racial quota
university of michigan law school. we won the law school case. we lost the undergrad case. and i think at this point, it is -- and there have been more recent studies about how it is a disaster for black people. but mostly i think it's a disaster for america. at this point, i will say, -- >> why? >> you get past discrimination by not discriminating on the basis of race. that's the way to do it. i will say one of the things that conservatives have generally not liked about richard...
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>> the reality is that, what did we have the for the law? a double-digit premium increases, of sustainable for the private sector who wants to offer insurance for their employees. unsustainable for families that may not get it through work and need to purchase it. millions of people and our country, including 1.5 million people.ey hand insurance companies could freely discriminate against people based on pre-existing conditions. all that was largely done away with with the affordable care act. when we get to full implementation. many small businesses and our state have already begun to get access to the subsidies to offer insurance. and so controlling costs, moving toward preventive health care system, and making sure that we end the discrimination on insurance, and making sure people are covered savannah driving the cost -- so they are not driving the cost in an emergency room, that will be good for business. >> we can talk about it now or in another time -- with regard to judges, i think it is some point we will talk about the judge that y
>> the reality is that, what did we have the for the law? a double-digit premium increases, of sustainable for the private sector who wants to offer insurance for their employees. unsustainable for families that may not get it through work and need to purchase it. millions of people and our country, including 1.5 million people.ey hand insurance companies could freely discriminate against people based on pre-existing conditions. all that was largely done away with with the affordable care...
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college of law. corporate liability for human rights violations outside the united states, after an argument in the supreme court. this event is being broadcast on c-span. please know you can send questions for our speakers. that is for the question and answer time. a couple of quick announcements. first, we would like to think jennifer dobson and her staff, the facilities and public relations teams, the navy and technology folks, and everyone else who has helped put this together, including the staff at the earthrights international. this is being co-sponsored by a program on comparative and environmental law and the international legal studies program. before i introduced the speakers, for those interested, we are also hosting a conference october 15 about the human rights system. you can check the website for more information about that conference. in its first argument of the term, the supreme court heard the arguments in -- rearguments in kiobel versus dutch petroleum, under the human rights cla
college of law. corporate liability for human rights violations outside the united states, after an argument in the supreme court. this event is being broadcast on c-span. please know you can send questions for our speakers. that is for the question and answer time. a couple of quick announcements. first, we would like to think jennifer dobson and her staff, the facilities and public relations teams, the navy and technology folks, and everyone else who has helped put this together, including...
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there were people in law from conference rooms where they could get an internet connection. people working at starbucks where they could get an internet connection, people working at their kitchen tables around town. all of a sudden, around april 1 we start moving into our headquarters finally. this is six weeks away from the announcement or maybe even longer. just this big space, far bigger than this room, about three times the size of this room on the whole floor of a high-rise building in chicago. it was remarkable. we did not have everybody in yet, but we were still getting our servers up. we had phones ringing and people try to answer phones. we had e-mail coming into our e- mail address and did not even have a system to receive e-mail in a real way that. you that. we had mail coming in but we did not have a budget yet. we had constituency leaders calling our political department because they wanted to have time with the candidate. we had fund-raisers. we had to raise money with this little-known barack obama brand against what was really a mismatch against hillary clin
there were people in law from conference rooms where they could get an internet connection. people working at starbucks where they could get an internet connection, people working at their kitchen tables around town. all of a sudden, around april 1 we start moving into our headquarters finally. this is six weeks away from the announcement or maybe even longer. just this big space, far bigger than this room, about three times the size of this room on the whole floor of a high-rise building in...
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had judge borke been a justice, i suppose he would not have supported many important laws that i like, including roe v. wade. that's why i was the first chairman of the judiciary committee to forthrightly state that it matters what your judiciary process is. i did change on that, and i'm glad i did. >> governor, there have been times as mayor and governor there were bills that i did not veto. those could be considered issues that i quisi caved in on, if you will, in order to work with the legislative body. that body actually holds the purse strings. there were times when i wanted to zero base budget and cut taxes even more, and i cannot have enough support in order to accomplish that. but on the major principle things, no, there hasn't been something that i have had to compromise on, because we have always seemed to find a way to work together. up in lass lass we have worked together not caring who gets the credit for what as we accomplish things up there. that's just been a part of the operation that i wanted to participate in, and that's what we're going to do in washington, d.c. al
had judge borke been a justice, i suppose he would not have supported many important laws that i like, including roe v. wade. that's why i was the first chairman of the judiciary committee to forthrightly state that it matters what your judiciary process is. i did change on that, and i'm glad i did. >> governor, there have been times as mayor and governor there were bills that i did not veto. those could be considered issues that i quisi caved in on, if you will, in order to work with the...
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he is a professor of law and economics at yale law school. chairman ofhe aei's our council economic advisers. he was supposed to be coming down from the cornea -- la guardia and his plane got cancelled. aei was a hotbed of the regulatory research in the 1980's that lead to regulation. it looks like we have a lot of work to do still. but it is good to have george even if just on the phone. also turning us is jeff eisenach. -- joining us is jeff eisenach. he is an adjunct professor at the george mason university school of law and is visit -- and is a visiting scholar here at american enterprise institute. we are also joined by randal picker. he teaches antitrust law at the university of chicago law school. he is the co-author of game theory and the law. here is how we are going to proceed. greg will talk about 20 minutes or so about his paper. then we are going to hear from our discussion, starting with george. and then jeff and randty and greg will have little time to respond. the everyone to have a q&a at the end. -- then we want to have a q&
he is a professor of law and economics at yale law school. chairman ofhe aei's our council economic advisers. he was supposed to be coming down from the cornea -- la guardia and his plane got cancelled. aei was a hotbed of the regulatory research in the 1980's that lead to regulation. it looks like we have a lot of work to do still. but it is good to have george even if just on the phone. also turning us is jeff eisenach. -- joining us is jeff eisenach. he is an adjunct professor at the george...
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. -- and daughter in law. agriculture is important in this state. what is important is that we always work together as a state. there are urban interests and rural interests and they coincide. because of agriculture's importance to the state of nebraska -- for instance, one in three jobs are dependent on the ag economy. we need to keep it in mind. it is a balancing act. i have done it in the last eight years in the legislature, handling that balancing act. that is how we grow our economy. in fact, we have weathered this economy fairly well here in the state of nebraska because the ago economy has been strong, -- because the ag economy has been strong, because it has carried us through. that is recognized all across the state. >> senator, kerrey, 30 seconds. >> everything she sedition i -- i agree with. i am not quite sure what she said. my problem with what senator fisher talks about here and in other areas is that her signing of the northwest pledge, her -- grover norquist pledge, her support of this particular balanced budget amendment will necess
. -- and daughter in law. agriculture is important in this state. what is important is that we always work together as a state. there are urban interests and rural interests and they coincide. because of agriculture's importance to the state of nebraska -- for instance, one in three jobs are dependent on the ag economy. we need to keep it in mind. it is a balancing act. i have done it in the last eight years in the legislature, handling that balancing act. that is how we grow our economy. in...
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mitt romney signed into law when he was governor of massachusetts. our guest is christine mcconnell. we will be joined by the host of reliable sources and laura-born -- ashburn, and we will discuss the recent report on how high school students are doing on the sats. our guest is james montoya. live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> i have all the channels, house, senate, close the book reviews beaches, those kinds of things. i watch which channel i want to see, because i have them all. if there is a speech i know you have covered or a book reviewer, i am going to watch that. when i want to find out something that has some value to it, that is going to be one of the first places i look. i am of broadcasting fare in. i watch those channels. i have five or 10 of the most, but it is going to include all the c-span channels. >> c-span, created by american cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television providers. usa today newspaper features an article on ross perot by richard wallis. c-span travel to ross perot's
mitt romney signed into law when he was governor of massachusetts. our guest is christine mcconnell. we will be joined by the host of reliable sources and laura-born -- ashburn, and we will discuss the recent report on how high school students are doing on the sats. our guest is james montoya. live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> i have all the channels, house, senate, close the book reviews beaches, those kinds of things. i watch which channel i want to see, because i have...
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i do like virginia's laws based on freedom and disclosure. and if there was more freedom, more of the contributions would come to the campaigns. what i would like to see in any ads that are run, whether run by candidates or independent groups, including the ones that are running negative ads that are false and misleading about me, is honesty. tim has brought up this issue of pay. and he's running these ads saying that, quote, he's setting a positive example by cutting his pay as governor. and he attacks the owner. attacked me today again on it. let me give you the truthful facts and you be the judge. as governor day one i returned 10% of my salary. all four years. mark warner followed up after me a few years later and cut his by 20%. what did tim do? he didn't cut his pay at all. when he came in, he could have found followed mark warner or my example but it was well into second year as governor he cut it by just 5%. so i was the one who actually set the positive example, tim, that you followed by you did do it half heartedly. and as far as in
i do like virginia's laws based on freedom and disclosure. and if there was more freedom, more of the contributions would come to the campaigns. what i would like to see in any ads that are run, whether run by candidates or independent groups, including the ones that are running negative ads that are false and misleading about me, is honesty. tim has brought up this issue of pay. and he's running these ads saying that, quote, he's setting a positive example by cutting his pay as governor. and...
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in addition to that, what president put that into law? why not, if it was not for the benefit of the constituents? guest: first of all, the capital gains preference dates back throughout the entire history of the income tax. there were a couple of years in the late 1980's where they were taxed. as far as the history of income tax, and for capital gains on corporate stocks, the evidence is compelling that this is in come at the corporate level. to tax it again at the individual level, it puts a penalty and corporations for issuing stock instead of debt. it would be a mistake to keep it in place. i think that the same point applies to dividends as well. capital gains also apply to land. one point to keep in mind there is that you cannot push the rating too high. people become reluctant to sell their assets. you are not taxed until the asset is sold. there is an upper limit to how far you can push it. but you could still hit 14% with more revenue. host: -- guest: some have indicated that the rate is around 28%, where would not affect what pe
in addition to that, what president put that into law? why not, if it was not for the benefit of the constituents? guest: first of all, the capital gains preference dates back throughout the entire history of the income tax. there were a couple of years in the late 1980's where they were taxed. as far as the history of income tax, and for capital gains on corporate stocks, the evidence is compelling that this is in come at the corporate level. to tax it again at the individual level, it puts a...
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washington said no to our landmark climb change law. million solar roofs, list goes on and on. we said yes, yes and yes. and we moved forward. some of the most powerful solutions come from local government and also grass roots. people power. not from washington or paris or moscow or beijing. finally, i learned quickly that a post partisan way of governing is the most effective way. if you believed you could only use the ideas of the right and left, you would never be able to move forward. you would never go and be successful. we saw that in california and in other states. we have seen post partisanship work all over the world. here the u.s.c. schwarzenegger institute, we will bring the most brilliant ideas and most solutions to the forefront no matter what the ideologies behind it. that is our mission. we will research with all of the brain power that we can muster and will produce solution that's can be used not only on this state but all over the world. this isn't just an idea institute although we will debate and research the best ideas but this is an action institute to pro
washington said no to our landmark climb change law. million solar roofs, list goes on and on. we said yes, yes and yes. and we moved forward. some of the most powerful solutions come from local government and also grass roots. people power. not from washington or paris or moscow or beijing. finally, i learned quickly that a post partisan way of governing is the most effective way. if you believed you could only use the ideas of the right and left, you would never be able to move forward. you...